Guvernøren
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Europa
was a cargo steamer laid down by Palmer's Engineering
Company Ltd in Jarrow, and was launched in November 1890
for National Steamship Company in Liverpool. She was sold
in 1907 to Atlantic Transport Company and renamed to
Mobile, and four years later to the Norwegian company
Aksjeselskapet Quilimane as Thøger. She was rebuilt to a
whale factory at Framnæs Mekaniske Verksted and started
sailing in the southern waters. Two years later she was
bought by Haldor Virik in Sandefjord and renamed
Guvernøren. While returning to Norway after the whale
season fully loaded with whale oil she caught fire at
South Shetland 27. January 1915. The crew had to abandon
ship and she was written off as a total loss. The wreck is
still visible on the surface with her bow pointing up
above the waterline outside Enterprise Island.
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